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Ethiopia has the largest mountainous land mass in Africa, with a diverse and complex environment. The peoples of Ethiopia reflect this diversity in their cultures. The integrity and traditional knowledge embedded in these cultures is being eroded through modern education and cultural globalization. Modern education divorces students from the traditional ecological knowledge of their communities, and makes it very difficult for them to reintegrate into their own societies. This process is...
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This article reveals the intrinsic connection between the constructs normality, identity, meaning, cultural tracking, and school achievement. In particular, it illuminates the indirect connection between cultural tracking and a reduction in the meaningful engagement of school tasks. As documented elsewhere, learning proceeds in a meaningful environment with meaningful goals embedded within the broader framework and context of human life, with identity anchored in a stable cultural and...
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This article focuses on the construction of gender identities among young boys and girls in a black primary school. Against the backdrop of food insecurity, young boys’ and girls’ vulnerability to violence and to using violence as a means of getting food is increased. Violence is a clear manifestation of gender inequalities. Drawing on data derived from an ethnographic exploration of children’s gender identities in the first years of primary schooling, this article examines how violence...
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This trial investigated the anti-schistosomal activity of mirazid in comparison with that of praziquantel in Schistosoma mansoni-infected Egyptian patients. The sample population was composed of 1,131 individuals (459 school children and 672 household members). Screening for S. mansoni was conducted using the standard Kato Katz technique. Four slides from a single stool sample were examined before treatment, and four slides per sample from stool samples obtained on three consecutive days...
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The purpose of this study was to explore training and development practices in Morocco and examine them in light of international practices provided from benchmarking data. Distinctions were also made between multinationals operating in Morocco and Moroccan owned companies. Contrasts in the results are discussed with possible explanations and implications for the future
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We investigate the active seismogenic fault system in the area of the 2003 Mw 6.9 Boumerdes earthquake, Algeria, from a high‐resolution swath bathymetry and seismic survey. A series of 5 main fault‐propagation folds ∼20–35 km long leave prominent cumulative escarpments on the steep slope and in the deep basin. Fault activity creates Plio‐Quaternary growth strata within uplifted areas such as a rollover basin on the slope and piggyback basins in the deep ocean. Most thrusts turn to...
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The main objective of this paper is to evaluate technologically (innovation or imitation) the role of human capital in Cameroon as far as economic growth is concerned. Higher education is designed to be the main technological aspect of human capital. Theoretically, the stock of knowledge available in a country determines through innovation productivity growth. In that way, we use a Vector Error Correction model (VECM) to evaluate the impact of human capital on productivity growth....
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In an attempt to reach the targets set out at the Jomtien World Conference of Education for All, the government of Malawi introduced free primary education, increasing the pupil to teacher ratio significantly. In order to counter this, two teacher education initiatives using distance education methods were devised to increase the numbers of trained teachers. This paper examines the implementation of these two initiatives and compares them with other distance teacher education programmes. It...
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Within the discussion around potential language shift from indigenous languages to English, the article focusses on the impact of English on language use and identities of Zulu students on the Howard College campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. I move beyond macro explanations and thematise the investigation of language shift as the 'study of a people's conceptions of themselves in relation to one another and to their changing social world, and of how these conceptions are...
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This study sought to determine the relative frequency of odontogenic tumors in a Nigerian population and to compare these data with previous reports.Records of patients seen at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital between January 1980 and December 2003, with histologic diagnosis of odontogenic tumors (based on World Health Organisation classification, 1992), were analyzed.Odontogenic tumors constituted 9.6% of all the biopsies of oral and jaw lesions seen within the period under study....
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Abstract This article draws a comparison between the Portuguese in relation to British and French discourses on overseas educational policies at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century until the 1930s. It focuses on three main colonial educational dynamics: school expansion (comparing the public and private sectors); State–Church relations (comparing these relationships at the European and colonial levels); and missionary competition (comparing Catholic with Protestant strategies...
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Schistosomiasis is hyperendemic in Nigeria. The national policy on schistosomiasis control has adopted praziquantel as the main drug of use in the control strategy aimed at reducing morbidity. However, the best delivery channel for praziquantel in schistosomiasis control in Nigeria is yet to be determined. This study assessed different channels for praziquantel delivery in a mass treatment effort. Three groups, each of two communities, were assigned to one of the following three channels:...